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SFMT-AIVIVTTAT, I^KPOT^T 

OF THE 

COUNCIL 

OF THE 

AMERICAN ANTiaUARIAN SOCIETY. 

MAY 29, 1839: 

WITH THE 

REPORT 

OF 

THE LIBRARIAN. 



WORCESTER: 

PRINTED FOR THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 

ET T. W. & J. BUTTERFIELD — ^GIS OFFICE. 

1839. 



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At a meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, held 
in Boston May 29, 1839, on motion of Professor Simon 
Greenleaf, 

" Voted, That the Keport of the Council, with the Report of the 
Librarian, and a list of the Officers and Members of the Society, be pub- 
lished for the use of the Society, under the direction of the Council." 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 

MAY 29, 1839. 



The Council of the American Antiquarian Society, in 
compliance with the provisions of the by-laws, on the fifty- 
third semi-annual meeting, respectfully submit their report of 
the condition of the funds, library, and concerns of the institu- 
tion, at the close of the month of May, 1839. 

The state of the treasury will be most conveniently explain- 
ed by comparison of the investments and revenues, with the 
necessary and contingent expenditures. 

By the order of the Society, at the May meeting of 1834, 
the sum of twelve thousand dollars was invested in one fund, 
and the interest was appropriated, in conformity with the ap- 
pointment of the donor, Doct. Isaiah Thomas, for the payment 
of the salary of a librarian, for the purchase of books and 
antiquities, and for meeting the incidental charges of the in- 
stitution. 

Another fund of five thousand dollars was established, and 
the accruing income appropriated for defraying the expenses of 
exploring the ancient monuments of the continent, preserving 
descriptions of the remains of the aboriginal population, and 
aiding in the increase of the library and cabinet. 

The general fund, now amounting to about three thousand 
dollars, remained, and was charged with current and extraor- 
dinary expenses. 

The revenues are derived from the interest on these funds, 
amounting together to ,f 23,125; from the income of a prin- 
cipal of eight hundred dollars received from the donor in notes 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



secured by mortgages of lands in Dixmont in Maine ; and 
from the rents of an estate in Middlebury, Vermont, yielding^ 
about fifty dollars annually. 

The available productive property of the society, exclusive 
of the buildings of Antiquarian Hall, of the land in Worces- 
ter, and of the library and cabinet, which have a value beyond 
any estimation in money, is now ,^24,725 04. 

The condition of each of the funds is exhibited in the full 
and detailed report of the treasurer, Samuel Jennison, Esq., 
and will be seen by the following abstract of his accounts : 



$12,945 


13 


7,219 58 


2,960 


33 


800 


00 


800 


00 


$24,725 04 



1. Balance of the Library Fund 

2. Balance of the Fund of Antiquities and Researches, 

3. Balance of the General Fund, 

4. Amount of Mortgages in Dixmont, Maine, . . , 

5. Value of Middlebury estate, estimated at only 



The yearly income is about fourteen hundred and eighty- 
two dollars. 

Some expenditures necessary for the maintenance and sup- 
port of the Society, are certain in amount and regular in their 
recurrence. 

Among them are the salaries of the only two officers receiv- 
ing any pecuniary compensation, which have been graduated 
on a scale of rigid economy. The Treasurer has had the re- 
sponsibility of the management and investment of a capital of 
more than twenty-four thousand dollars, and the care of 
the receipt and disbursement of the interest, coming in and 
paid out in small sums. So prudent and faithful has been his 
administration of this department, that nothing has been lost, 
and the principal remains safely invested in permanent securi- 
ties. During the last year the Treasurer has charged for his ser- 
vices, thirty dollars ; a sum which would not be an adequate 
compensation to another for the mere labor of making the 
proper entries on the books of the transactions of business. 
The salary of the Librarian has been fixed at six hundred 
dollars annually. That officer devotes almost the whole of his 



REPORT OF THE COUNCrL. 5 

time to tliG discharge of his regular duties, and has been con- 
stantly engaged in promoting the objects and interests of the 
Society with a degree of assiduity, energy, and zeal, which 
cannot fail to produce the most useful results. It must be 
considered fortunate for the institution to have enlisted in its 
service, so much experience and capacity ; and it is gratifying 
that those who have been entrusted with the active manage- 
ment of its affairs, have sought the largest portion of the remu- 
neration for faithful and valuable labors in the gratification of 
antiquarian taste and the reward of doing good. 

The preservation of the buildings of the Society requires 
annual appropriations. The renewal of those parts of the 
structures impaired by decay, and the improvements of the 
interior of the halls for the convenient arrangement and use of 
the increasing library, will demand an annual expenditure not 
less than one hundred dollars. 

With the ordinary success of collection and the usual liber- 
ality of donation, the sum of one Jiundred dollars will be re- 
quired for binding into volumes, the tracts, newspapers, and 
manuscripts, and renovating decayed books, during the year. 

The average charge of printing, if confined to advertising 
notices of meetings and communicating information to the 
members on subjects connected with the interests of the 
Society, will be small : united with the payments for stationery, 
postage, transportation, fuel and light, the aggregate may be 
estimated at about seventy-five dollars the year. 

The necessary expenses will be about nine hundred and 
five dollars annually, as will appear by the following re- 
capitulation : 

1. Salaries of the Treasurer and Librarian, C30 00 

2. Repairs and improvernents, 100 00 

3. Binding tracts, newspapers, and books, 100 00 

4. Printing, transportation, fuel, &c., 75 00 

$905 00 

When these sums shall have been deducted from the annual 
income, there will. remain about five hundred and seventy- 
seven dollars unexpended. 



6 UEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 

In the former reports of the Council it has been fully ex- 
plained that some encroachments were made on the original 
amount of the funds, under the direction and by the order of 
the Society. Two wings were added to Antiquarian Hall to 
furnish accommodations for the swelling collections, in 1833, 
at the cost of ^1,037 02 : the publication of the second vol- 
ume of Transactions, in 1837, containing the excellent me- 
moir on the languages of the Indian tribes by the Hon. Al- 
bert Gallatin, and Gookin's history of the Christian Indians, 
was made at the expense of about ,^1,100: the edition of the 
catalogue of the library in a large octavo volume, required the 
payment of about eight hundred dollars. These disburse- 
ments, for objects of permanent utility, changed some portion 
of the moneys from the investments which yielded pecuniary 
revenue into a form in which they will afford an income of 
reputation, and aid the objects of the Society by extending the 
knowledge of its works. 

The sums which have been received by the treasurer in 
money, amounted to !^' 23,661 84 : the funds remaining in his 
possession, exclusive of the estate in Vermont and the mort- 
gages in Maine, are ,^23,125 04: the difference of these 
sums, being the excess of expenditure over income, is 
I' 536 80. 

The Council, desirous of restoring the integrity of the origi- 
nal funds, and considering the deficiency which had been pro- 
duced by the expenditures for useful purposes, as a debt due 
from the Society to posterity, for whom they are trustees, 
endeavored to make a system of economy operate as a sinking 
fund for the redemption of the arrears. Between the May 
and October meetings of 1838, the balance was reduced by 
the reimbursement of l|'211 15 : — during the past six months 
^55 96 have been repaid : previous to the annual meeting in 
October next, two hundred dollars more may be extinguished 
by the appropriation of the surplus revenue. 

Some considerable extraordinary work will be needed on the 
roofs of the Halls, for draining the grounds around, and to se- 
cure the foundations of the buildings, which may absorb two 
hundred dollars of the disposable income. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



A debt of two hundred and twenty dollars for binding two 
hundred and twenty volumes of newspapers, which has been 
recently incurred, must be drawn from the treasury imme- 
diately. A large portion of this sum will ultimately be re- 
stored by the collection of some arrears of interest not in- 
cluded in the accounts from which these computations have 
been derived : but this payment will, for the present, entirely 
exhaust the resources of the year. 

From these statements it will be obvious, that it must be 
proper to forego the purchase of books, and to rely for the in- 
crease of the hbrary on the liberality of members and the gen- 
erosity of the public. The necessity of retrenchment, should 
prevent, for a season, the attempt to make any considerable 
publications. The interval of the suspended motion of the 
press, may be well employed in seeking authentic memorials 
of the relics of the aboriginal nations of the west, or the evi- 
dence of facts which have been supposed to prove the early 
discoveries of the Northmen in the east. 

Whenever the improved condition of the treasury will per- 
mit new acquisitions by purchase, it will be desirable to devote 
the first moneys which may be saved from necessary appropri- 
ations, to extend one department of the library now deplorably 
scanty. At the earliest time when it shall be possible, there 
should be placed on the shelves. Lord Kingsborough's edition 
of the work of Augustine Aglio ; the folios of Frederic de 
Waldeck, on the antiquities of Mexico, the ruins of Palenque, 
and the archaeology of Central America ; and those other rare 
or recent works which illustrate the history of the southern 
continent. 

Improvements have been made during the spring season on 
the grounds of the Society. The belt of trees flourishing on 
the front of the Hall has been extended along the sides and 
rear, and at no distant period, the library will be embowered 
amid the shade of evergreens, forming walls of perennial ver- 
dure to separate the still retreat of the antiquarian from the 
busy stir of the modern world. 

Free access to the collections has been permitted to visitors. 



8 ItEPORT OF THE rOl'NClL. 

During one hour of each day the halls have been open to 
every citizen, whether attracted by curiosity or in pursuit of 
information : during all hours they have been accessible to 
every student of history or of literature who sought the use 
of the library. The task of attendance thus imposed on the 
librarian has been onerous. It has been believed that such 
liberality would secure, as it would merit, the favor of the 
public for an institution which shared its benefits freely with 
the whole community. 

An excellent memoir on the library has been presented to 
the Council by the Librarian, Samuel F. Haven, Esq., and is 
communicated to the Society with this report. It explains the 
accessions made during the past semi-annual period, the plans 
proposed for future collections, and the system of arrangement 
he has matured. 

The extent of the library may be measured with some accu- 
racy by examining the catalogue of 552 printed pages, enume- 
rating more than twelve thousand volumes ; the value would 
only be realized by diligent inspection of the alcoves and 
study in the halls. 

Among the oldest books in the collection, are, a treatise on 
natural history, unfortunately divested of the first and last 
sheets which might verify the date of production ; but supposed, 
from internal evidence, to have been printed as early as 1470, 
within fifteen years after the invention of metal types, and 
only forty years after the discovery of the art of printing ; full of 
grotesque cuts of the animals, plants, and minerals described 
in the text, strangely rude efforts of the first designers for the 
letter press of Germany : a copy, in perfect preservation, of the 
beautiful Venitian Bible of 1476 : the " Summa Theologia," 
of Raynerius, magnificently illuminated, at Venice, in 1486 ; 
and editions of the holy scriptures in many languages, esteem- 
ed to be rarities of typography. 

The library has been enlarged by a gradual but regular in- 
crease, year by year. It cannot be hoped that it will ever be 
able to bear favorable comparison in the amount of literature 
or science, with the depositaries of the works of the learned, 



REl'ORT OK Tin; COUNCIL. » 

founded in the cities, or at the universities, or sustained by 
the patronage of the federal and state governments. In some 
departments, however, the Society may be considered already 
rich. 

The remains of the libraries of the Mathers, were many 
years since given to the Society : many " lesser composures " 
of the fathers of New England were preserved by these men 
of much learning, which otherwise might have perished. 
The late president. Dr. Isaiah Thomas, enjoyed rare advanta- 
ges for gathering the works of American authors, and presented 
all his collections. A large bequest of German periodicals 
and books was made by the will of the Rev. Dr. William 
Bentley. One hundred and twenty-eight volumes, illustrative 
of the topography, local history, and antiquities of England 
and Wales, and of genealogy and heraldry, were recently be- 
stowed by the President, the Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop. 

About fifteen thousand separate tracts have been bound in 
1 ,035 volumes of pamphlets. They embrace series of sermons, 
orations, anniversary discourses, reports of societies, festival 
addresses, occasional publications on religious and political 
controversies, and all those sheets thrown off from the press, 
so soon perishing unless carefully gathered, but which are of 
singular interest in illustrating the spirit of past times. 

The collection of newspapers may be described as good, 
without fear of exaggeration : there are 1,251 volumes, many 
of them embracing two or three annual files within the same 
covers. Commencing in 1704 with the News Letter, the first 
of the newspapers printed in North America, the series of 
these publications down to the revolution of 1774, is probably 
more full and perfect than any other in the United States : 
since the adoption of the constitution it is extensive and of 
tolerable completeness. The limitations of the uses of the 
funds, have prevented subscriptions for the periodicals of our 
own times, and it has been necessary to depend, for the most 
part, on the generosity of individuals for the increase of the 
.stores of materials for the history of the present. By the great 
industry and perseverance of the Librarian, valuable additions 



10 IirrOUT OF TIIK COl'NCII,. 

have been made to this department, which are indicated by his" 
report. 

The efforts of the same officer, directed to perfect the col- 
lection of the legislative and judicial records of the several 
states of the union, it is gratifying to learn, have been crowned 
with success. It is understood, although not certainly known 
by any official information, that the series of public documents 
of Maine, have been made ready for transmission. The re- 
quests of the Society for the aid afforded by communicating 
public papers, have never been denied : but they have fre- 
quently been delayed and postponed. Should the object 
ever be accomplished, the student and statesman may be ena- 
bled to find, gathered in one place, the materials for the his- 
tory of legislation and jurisprudence, and comparing the laws 
of the sister republics with each other, may obtain useful hints 
for social improvement. 

The Society have many manuscripts ; among them, some 
which are rare and curious. It is believed that these treasures 
may be much increased. There is scarcely a family of the 
descendants of the early planters coming from the fountains 
of population in the old world to spread cultivation and im- 
provement over the western continent, who have not files and 
boxes of papers, letters, or memorials of the early wars, 
illustrative of history and biography. The improved diligence 
of modern writers has formed a just appreciation of the pecu- 
liar value of these fragments, which other societies have care- 
fully gathered. It is believed that if the members could be 
interested to explore the treasures of the garrets, to procure 
copies of old records, and to extract original writings from 
the places of their repose, that a collection miglit be soon 
formed having extraordinary interest. 

The Cabinet occupies one large room, and has been 
arranged with great neatness. Beside an extensive collection 
of foreign and native minerals, and of shells, many of them 
of singular beauty and high scientific value, but not peculiarly 
appropriate to the objects of the institution, there are old 
specimens of the arts of Peru and Mexico ; a vast number of 



RF.rr.RT OF THE COUNTIL. 11 

implements, utensils, weapons, and ornaments of the northern 
Indians, and some most interesting memorials of the planters 
of New England, and of the patriots of the revolution. The 
coins exceed two thousand in number ; some hundreds bear 
the impress of the emperors of Rome : there are many stamped 
with the pine tree of the province and the Indian of the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; and most of those which 
have been issued in the several American States are preserved. 
Almost every variety of the continental currency has its rep- 
resentative in the piles of paper money. 

Among the portraits, are those of John Winthrop, John 
Endicott, Francis Higginson, John Leverett, John Rogers, 
the Mathers from the ancestor Richard of Dorchester, Thos. 
Prince, Gov Burnett, and others of the early worthies of 
New England ; of Doct. Isaiah Thomas and Hon. Thomas 
L. Winthrop, the presidents, and of C. C. Baldwin, the late 
librarian, among the benefactors of the Society. The en- 
gravings and maps are numerous, and some of them are 
curious specimens of the arts of design. 

The communications proposed by Mr. Haven in the an- 
nexed report, will be useful in directing the attention of those 
to whom they are addressed, to the wants of the Society, 
and the means of supply. They will serve to apprise each 
member that he is entitled to exercise the privilege of depos- 
iting his own works, and any rare book, or curious article 
held by himself or his friends. 

The statements which have been made, will be considered 
as justifying the Council in congratulating the Society on the 
continued prosperity of the institution ; on the permanency and 
extent of its foundation, and on the prospect of increasing 
usefulness. 

For the Comr.iitlee of the Council, 

WILLIAM LINCOLN. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



The Librarian respectfully submits to the Council of the 
American Antiquarian Society his first semi-annual report of 
the year 1839. 

It appears from the entries in the Book of Donations, that, 
since the meeting of the Society, in October, four hundred 
and five pamphlets, and fifty-nine volumes of books, have 
been added to its collections. 

This enumeration is exclusive of such public documents as 
are regularly received from Congress or from State Govern- 
ments. 

A number of files of valuable newspapers have been pre- 
sented, and a very considerable quantity in a broken and mis- 
cellaneous condition. 

A small package of Roman Coins, received from Commo- 
dore Jesse D. Elliott, through the hand of Governor Lincoln — 
a few engravings — a large and handsome chart of George^s 
shoal — several smaller plans — a bundle of 3ISS. sermons, 
preached in Salem a century since — and some small articles for 
the Cabinet, complete the list of additions. 

Among the volumes are several Scandinavian works, and 
old northern chronicles of Icelandic and Danish history, pre- 
sented by Rev. William Barry of Framingham. 

The Librarian was authorised to purchase, of the same gen- 
tleman, an Icelandic Dictionary, oflered at the price paid by 
him in Copenhagen. 

For the moderate sum of five dollars, a comprehensive Lex- 
icon, Icelandic and Latin^ containing 871 pages quarto, un- 



RF.PORT OF THE LIRRARIAIV. iJi 

bound, an Icelandic Grammar, and a copy of Snorre Stule- 
son's history, in Danish, have been, accordingly, transferred to 
the Society. 

These volumes were collected, some years since, by Mr. 
Barry, in Copenhagen, while engaged in investigations relat- 
ing to the discovery of America by the Northmen, before the 
time of Columbus. Other engagements unfortunately pre- 
vented the completion of his inquiries ; but he has a mass of 
manuscript notes and memoranda, which he has been prevail- 
ed upon to say, shall, when leisure permits, be put into a con- 
nected shape, and communicated to the Society. 

The unarranged Newspapers, that have been gradually ac- 
cumulated in a detached and imperfect state, have been care- 
fully looked over and sifted. By means of the materials al- 
ready in possession, with the aid of parcels obtained in vari- 
ous quarters, two hundred and twenty volumes have been 
made so nearly perfect as to justify their being bound. These 
have, therefore, been put into a neat and substantial binding, 
and form a valuable increase to that department of the Libra- 
ry. Particular pains have been taken to continue the series of 
those papers that had been previously preserved. The Bos- 
ton Courier is completed to the close of 1838. The Boston 
Gazette, of which there were already twenty-eight volumes, 
extending from 1719 to 1811, has been continued in a regular 
series, to 1828. The Connecticut Courant, which before end- 
ed at 1791, has been taken up again at 1799 and brought 
down to 1835, with the exception of the years 1806, 1811-12* 
and 1832. Spooner's Vermont Journal has been continued 
in regular series from 1803 to 1819. There have been added 
twenty years of the National Intelligencer — eighteen years of 
the National Gazette — fourteen of the United States Gazette 
— fourteen of the New York Herald, and thirteen, each, of the 
Boston Recorder, the Christian Watchman, and the Christian 
Register. Other papers, of value as the organs of a party, or 
a sect, have been obtained in files of from three to ten years, 

* The volumes for 1811 and 1812 have been since obtained. 



14 UEPORT OF THE LTBRAUIAN. 

The additional shelves, prepared last season for newspapers, 
are not quite sufficient for this increase. 

The duty of arranging the Library according to a scientific 
method, required of the Librarian by the by-laws, has been 
the subject of much consideration. Efforts have been made 
to ascertain what systems have been adopted in other libraries, 
and to learn the views of persons having the advantage of 
experience. The result is a conviction, that, only a very gen- 
eral arrangement of books upon the shelves with reference to 
subjects, is practicable or expedient, and that the classification 
in the Librarian's Catalogue should be simple and comprehen- 
sive. It is often less difficult to find a book under a general 
head, than to trace it through minute subdivisions, where a 
difference of opinion may exist as to the propriety of its posi- 
tion. An exemplification of the arrangement proposed by the 
Librarian for his book of entries, accompanies this report. It 
will be perceived, that, being based upon the great objects of 
the Society, viz. to ascertain the past, preserve the present, 
and keep pace with the pi'ogressive history of America, the 
titles of the classes have relation to that design ; the minuter 
sub-division being that of dates or periods of time. Foreign 
works, and others not affecting our history, must of course 
be placed under heads appropriate to themselves.* 

In connexion with this arrangement it may be proper to 
allude to the means now in operation for supplying the mate- 
rials for the several departments there enumerated. 

In regard to Antiquities, properly so called, no definite 

* This classification consists of three comprehensive divisions, viz. 
1st, Antiquities, embracing all matters antecedent to actual history ; 2d, 
General History ; 3d, Local History ; — and thirteen sub-divisions of the 
two last named heads, viz. History of Legislation — Judical History — His- 
tory of Parties, or Politics — Religious History, or Rise and Progress of 
Sects — History of Moral and Benevolent Associations, Institutions, and En- 
terprises — History of Education — History of Arts and Sciences — History of 
Trade and Manufactures — Military History — Diplomatic History— Tabular 
History or Statistics — Geographical History — and Literary History, or 
Literature. All documents and facts relating to these, being placed in the 
order of the periods to which thcv refer. 



nEfORT OF THE LIP.UARIAN. i-> 

measures are at this time employed, in the way of research or 
discovery. With the present resources of the Society, it is 
necessary, perhaps, rather to wait for opportunities tlian to 
form plans requiring the provision of means for their execution. 

To supply the departments of Legislative and Judicial 
history, the circular alluded to in the Librarian's last report 
as having been prepared for the purpose, has been forwarded 
to the several governments of the United States, in the hope 
that the examples of some of the States may be adopted by 
all, and that copies of all documents, published by legislative 
authority or requisition, may be lodged in the Library of this 
Institution. No official information of the result has yet been 
received. 

The progressive history of parties, religious sects, moral 
and benevolent associations and enterprises, education, 
arts and sciences, Sfc, may, to a considerable extent, be 
found in the newspapers, reports, occasional addresses, and 
magazines, that are collected and preserved for this purpose. 
Fortunately, almost every association, or party, has now its 
periodical organ, for explaining and enforcing its plans and 
principles. The most important of these, at least in our own 
vicinity, will probably find their way into the Antiquarian 
Library without great expense to the Society. 

The disposition among associations, authors, and editors, to 
deposite their publications in the Library, is apparently in- 
creasing. The American Colonization Society, the American 
Education Society, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 
the Editor of the Boston Courier, and the Editor of the 
Christian Watchman, continue to transmit their publications 
as they are issued. In other cases voluntary propositions 
have been made to preserve papers with a view of depositing 
them at the end of the year. The Wisconsin Enquirer, a new 
paper, the first in that young territory, and the organ of its 
government, is constantly sent by some unknown friend. 

The value of these store-houses of facts and incidents, is 
diminished by the quantity of extraneous matter by which 
these facts arc surrounded and buried. If it were practicable 



16 UEPOIIT or THE LIBRARIAN. 

to obtain the leading periodicals of our country, religious, 
political, literary and scientific, as they are issued, it would be 
easy for the Librarian to preserve an index rerum of impor- 
tant matters found in them, having a bearing upon our history, 
by means of references placed under those heads to which 
the subjects relate. A valuable collection of referertces to 
minor historical materials might thus be gradually accumu-^ 
lated. 

In compliance with the wish, expressed by the Royal Geo^ 
graphical Society of London, to be admitted to an interchange 
of Transactions, the Librarian, as directed by the Council, 
made up a package of books, consisting of the Transactions 
and Catalogue of this Society, Thomas' History of Printing, 
Lincoln's History of Worcester, and the Worcester Magazine, 
and committed it to the kindness of George Bancroft, Esq., 
Collector of the Port of Boston, for a chance of safe and direct 
transmission to that learned Association. 

In concluding this report, the Librarian begs leave to sug- 
gest the expediency of furnishing each member of the Anti- 
quarian Society with a sheet containing the heads into which 
its collections are divided, with the request, that as books or 
documents appropriate to its objects, come to their knowledge, 
the titles, price, and the place where they are to be found, may 
be entered under the head to which the works respectively 
belong. If such memoranda were annually returned to the 
Librarian from different sections of the country, information,- 
difficult to be procured by other means, and very important to 
the design of the Society, would be obtained. This measure 
would impose on members no troublesome or laborious duty, 
while its tendency would be to keep alive a remembrance of 
their connexion with this Institution, and an interest in its 
progress. 

All which is respectfully submitted, 

SAMUEL F. HAVEN, Librarian, 



CATALOGUE 



OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 



AMERICAN ANTiaUARIAN SOCIETY. 



MAY, 1830 



WORCESTER : 

PRINTED BY T. W. & J. BUTTERFIELD— .EGIS OFFICE. 

18 3 9. 



OFFICERS 

OF THE 

AMERICAN ANTiaUARIAN SOCIETY, 

FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, NOV. 1812. 



Elected. TRESIDENTS. Retired. 

1812 Isaiah Thomas, Worcester. 1831 
1831 Thomas Lindall Winthrop, Boston. 

VICE PRESIDENTS. 

1813 William Dandridge Peck, Cambridge. 1816 
1812 WjiLiAM Paine, Worcester. 1816 
1816 Aaron Bancroft, " 1831 
1816 Timothy Bigelow, Medford. 1821 
1821 De Witt Clinton, New York. 1828 
1828 Thomas Lindall Winthrop, Boston. 1831 
1831 John Davis, Worcester. 

1831 Joseph Story, Cambridge, 

councillors. 

1812 Timothy Bigelow, Medford. 1816 

1812 Aaron Bancroft, Worcester. 1816 

1812 EDW.4RD Bangs, " 1818 

1812 George Gibes, Boston. 1814 

1812 William Bentley, Salem. 1820 

1812 Redford Webster, Boston. 1816 

1812 Benjamin Russell, " 

1814 Samuel J. Prescott, " 1819 

1815 William Stedman, Newburyport. 1816 
1815 Oliver Fiske, Worcester. 1825 
1815 Nathaniel Paine, Worcester, 1820 



1-1 ST or Ol'I'lCEKS. 



181."> George Thacher, Biddeford. J810' 

1815 KiLBORN Whitman, Pembroke. 1820 
1810 Edward H. Robbins, Milton. 1830 
1810 Francis Blake, Worcester. 1817 
181G James Wintiirop, Cambridge. 1821 

1816 Levi Lincoln, Sen., Worcester. 1817 

1817 Levi Lincoln, " 

1817 Abijaii Bigelow. " 1828 

1819 Mark Langdon Hill, Georgetown, Me. 1821 

1820 William Jenks, Boston. 
1820 Charles Lowell, " 

1820 Samuel Jennison, Worcester. 1823 

1820 Edward D. Bangs, " 1824 

1820 Joshua Thomas, Plymouth. 1821 

1821 Thomas L. Winthrop, Boston. 1828 

1823 Samuel M. Burnside, Worcester. 

1824 John Davis, Worcester. 1831 

1825 Isaac Goodwin, " 1832 
1828 James C. Merrill, Boston. 

1830 Frederic W. Paine, Worcester. 

1831 James Bowdoin, Boston. 1833 

1831 John Green, Worcester. 

1832 Edward D. Bangs, Worcester. 1838 

1832 John Park, Worcester. 

1833 Joseph Willard, Boston. 
1838 Emory Washrurn, Worcester. 

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. 

1812 TiiADDEus M. Harris, Boston. 1881 

1812 William Jenks, Boston. 1816 

1814 Samuel M. Burnside, Worcester. 1823 

1816 Ariel Holmes, Cambridge. 1828 

1823 Samuel Jennison, Worcester. 1826 

1825 William Lincoln, " 1831 

secretaries for foreign correspondence. 

1831 Thaddeus M. Harris, Boston. 1833 

1832 Edward Everett, Boston. 

SECRETARY F ii DOMESTIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

1631 William Lincoln, Worcester, 



LIST Ol' OrFK'EUS. O 

RECORDING SECK ETA HIES. 

Samuel M. Burnside, Worcester. 1814 

Oliver Fiske, AVorcester. ISl.'i 
Rejoice Newton, " 

treasurers. 

Levi Lincoln, Worcester. 1813 

Isaiah Thomas, Jan., Worcester. 1819 

Nathaniel Maccarty, " 1829 
Samuel Jennison, " 

COBIMITTEES of rUBLlCATION. 

Aaron Bancroft, Worcester. 1831 

William Bentlev, Salem. 1819 

William Jenks, Boston. 1833 

Samuel M. Burnside, Worcester. 1829 

Edward D. Bangs, " 1827 

Samuel Jennison, " 1831 

William Lincoln, " 1834 

Joseph Willard, Boston. 1833 

John Park, Worcester. 1833 
Alfred D. Foster, Worcester. 

George Folsom, New York. 1837 
John Park, Worcester. 
William Lincoln, Worcester. 

LIBRARIANS. 

Samuel Jennison, Worcester. 1825 

William Lincoln, " 1827 

Christopher C. Baldwin, Worcester, 1830 

Samuel M. Burnside, " 1831 

Christopher C. Baldwin, " 1835 

Maturin L. Fisher, " 1838 
Samuel F. Haven, " 



MEMBERS 

OF THE 

AMERICAN ANTiaUARIAN SOCIETY, 

MDCCCXXXIX. 



MEMBERS IN THE UNITED STATES. 

f^ The decease of members, when ascertained, is indicated by a star prefixed to 
their names. 

When no name of a State is annexed to the place of residence, with the exception 
of a few well-known cities, Alassachusetls is understood. 



Benjamin Abbott, LL. D. 
Prof. Ebenezer Adams, 
*Hon. John Adams, 
*Nathaniel Adams, Esq. 
*Gen. Roger Alden, 
Rev. Timothy Alden, D. D.,. 
*Benjamin Allen, LL. D, 
Hon. Charles Allen, 
Rev, Joseph Allen, 
Rev. William Allen, D. D., 
Ebenezer T. Andrews, Esq. 
*"Rev. Jesse Appleton, D. D., 
Hon. Charles H. Atherton, 
Caleb Atwater, Esq. 
*Christopher C. Baldwin, Esq. 
*Loammi Baldwin, Esq. 
*Rev. Aaron Bancroft, D. D. 
George Bancroft, Esq. 
*John Chandler Bancroft, 
*Hon. Edward Bangs, 



Exeter, N. H. 
Hanover, N. II. 
Qiiincy. 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

Meadville, Pa. 

it (( 

Hyde Park, N. Y. 

Worcester. 

Northboro.' 

SrunsivicJc, 3Ie. 

Boston. 

Brunswiclc, Mc. 

Amherst, N. H. 

Columbus, Ohio. 

Worcester. 

Charlestown. 

Worcester. 

Boston. 

Worcester. 



NAMES OP MEMUF.RS. 



*Eclvvard D. Bangs, Esq. 

*non. Josiah Bartlett, M. D. 

lion. Levi Bartlett, 

*Prof. Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D., 

William Barton, Esq. 

*Hon. James A. Bayard, 

lion. William Baylies, 

*Rev. William Bentlcy, I). D. 

Hon. Abijah Bigelow, 

*Abraham Bigelow, Esq. 

Rev. Andrew Bigelow, 

*Hon. Timothy Bigelow, 

Rev. Gideon Blackburn, D. D. 

*Hon. Francis Blake, 

William Blanding, LL. D. 

William Bond, 

*James Bowdoin, Esq. 

*Hon. Jabez Bowen, 

*Ward N. Boylston, Esq. 

,Tohn Leeds Bozman, Esq. 

Hon. Samuel A. Bradley, 

*01iver Bray, Esq. 

Rev. John Brazer, D. D. 

Henry M. Breckenridge, Esf]. 

Hon. Samuel W. Bridgham, 

*Hon. Elijah Brigham, 

*Hon. John Brooks, M. D. LL. D. 

*Rev. Francis Brown, D D., 

*Hon. James Brown, 

*Moses Brown, Esq. 

Nicholas Brown, Esq. 

Samuel M. Burnside, Esq. 

*Hon. James Burrill, 

Matthew Carey, Esq. 

*Hon. Charles Carroll, LL. D. 

*Right Rev. John Carroll, D. D., LL. D. 

Hon. Lewis Cass, LL. D., 

*Rev. John Chester, D. D. 

Abraham Clarke, M. D. 

*IIon. Wdliam Clarke, 



lV07'CCStC7-. 

Cliarlcstonm . 

Concord, N. II. 

PhUadclpMa. 

Lancaster, Pa. 

Wilmington, Del. 

Bridgeioater . 

Salem. 

Worcester. 

Camhridge. 

Taunton. 

Mcdford. 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Worcester. 

PhiladeljjJiia. 

Dorchester. 

Boston. 

Providence. 

Pi'inceton. 

Pcdtimorc. 

Portland, Me. 

Salem. 

Pittsburg, Pa. 
Providence. 
Westhorough. 
Medford. 
Hanover, N. II. 
New Orleans. 
Providence. 

Worcester. 
Providence. 
Philadelphio. 
CarroUton, Md. 
Paltimorc. 
U. States. 
Albany. 
Newark, N. J. 
St. Louis, Mo. 



8 



NAMES OF MKMJBERS. 



John D. Clifford, Esq. 

*Hon. De Witt Clinton, LL. D. 

Rev. Timothy Clowes, LL. D. 

*Hon. David Cobb, 

Rev. Charles Coffin, D. D., 

* William Coleman, Esq. 
Judah Colt, Esq. 
Rosseter Cotton, 
George W. P. Custis, Esq. 
*Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL. D. 
Hon. David Daggett, LL. D. 
*non. Samuel W. Dana, 
*non. Nathan Dane, LL. D. 
*Aaron Davis, Esq. 

Hon. John Davis, LL. D. 

Hon. Henry A. S. Dearborn, 

*Elias Haskett Derby, Esq. 

Silas Dinsmore, Esq. 

Daniel Drake, M. D. 

Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL. D., 

*Alexander Dustin, Esq. 

*Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., LL. D., 

*Hon. William Ellery, 

Samuel Elliot, Esq. 

* Simon Elliott, Esq. 
*Hon. Caleb Ellis, 
Hon. George W. Erving, 
*Rev. Joseph Estabrook, 

*Hon. William Eustis, M. D., LL. D. 

Hon. Edward Everett, LL. D., 

*John Farmer, Esq. 

*John Hay Farnham, Esq. 

Hon. Paul Fearing, 

Moses Fiske, Esq. 

*Hon. Oliver Fiske, 

*Hon. Samuel Fiske, 

George Folsom, Esq. 

*John M. Forbes, Esq. 

Alfred D. Foster, Esq. 

*JJon. DwicTJit Foster, 



Lexington, Ky. 

Albany, N. Y. 

Hempstead, L. I. 

Goldsborough, Me. 

Grenville, Tenn. 

Neio York. 

Erie, Pa. 

Plymouth. 

Arlinglon Place, D.C. 

Hamilton. 

New Haven, Conn, 

31iddlctotvn, " 

Beverly. 

Roxbury. 

Worcester. 

Boston. 

iSalem . 

St. Stephens, Ala 

Cincinnati . 

Philadelphia. 

Sterling. 

New Haven. 

Newport, R. I. 

Washington. 

Neicton. 

Claremont, N. H. 

Boston. 

At hoi. 

Roxbury. 

Boston. 

Concord, N. H. 

Frankfort, Ky. 

Marietta, Ohio. 

Wliite Plains, Tenn. 

Worcester. 

Claremont, N. H. 

New York. 

Milton. 

Worcester. 

Brookfield. 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



*Tlieo(lore Foster, 

William B. Fovvle, 

John W. Francis, M. D. 

Charles Frazer, Esq. 

*Hon. Nathaniel Freeman, 

*Hon. Samuel Freeman, 

*Robert Fulton, Esq. 

Hon. Albert Gallatin, LL. D. 

*Hon. William Gaston, LL. D. 

*Hon. John T. Gilman, 

*William Goddard, 

Prof. William G. Goddard, 

*Hon. Robert H. Goldsborough, 

Jonathan Goodhue, Esq. 

*Isaac Goodwin, Esq. 

*Hon. Christopher Gore, LL. D. 

*Hon. WilHam Gray, 

John Green, M. D. 

Prof. Simon Greenleaf, LL. D. 

Hon. Frederick A. Grimke, 

*Hon. Thomas S. Grimke, LL. D. 

Nathan Guilford, Esq. 

*Thomas L. Halsey, Esq. 

*Alexander C. Hanson, 

*Hon. Robert G. Harper, 

Rev. Thaddeus M. Harris, D. D. 

*Rev. William Harris, D. D. 

Ferdinando Rodolph Hassler, 

*Nathaniel A. Haven, Esq. 

Samuel F. Haven, Esq. 

*Rev. John Heckewelder, 

Rev. Francis Herron, 

Samuel P. Hildreth, M. D. 

Rev. Alonzo Hill, 

Hon. Mark L. Hill, 

*Rt. Rev. John H. Hobart, D. D. 

*Rev. Horace Holley, D. D. 

*Rev. Abiel Holmes, D. D. 

*Hon. John Hooker, 

*David Hosack, M. D., LL. D., F. R. S 



Foster, R. I. 
Boston. 
New Yorli. 
Charleston, S. C. 
Sandwich. 
Portland, 3Ie. 
Nciv York. 

Raleigh, N. C. 
Exeter, N. H. 
Providence. 

Easton, 3Id, 
Ncio York. 
Worcester. 
Walt ham. 
Boston. 
Worcester. 
Cambridge. 
Chillicothc, Ohio. 
Chai'lcston, S. C. 
Cincinnati. 
Providence. 
Georgetown, D. C. 
Baltimore. 
Dorchester. 
New York. 
Washington, D. C. 
Portsmouth, N. H. 
Worcester. 
Bethlehem, Pa. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Marietta, Ohio. 
Worcester. 
Phippsburg, Me. 
Nezo York. 
Lexington, Ky. 
Cambridge. 
Springfield. 
Neio York. 



10 



NAMES OF MEMBERS, 



*Hon. John E. Howard, 

*Hon. David Humphreys, LL. D. 

*Rev. James Inglis, D. D. 

Washington Irving, LL. D. 

Eleazer James, Esq. 

*Hon. John Jay, 

Peter A. Jay, Esq., LL. D. 

*Hon. Thomas Jefferson, LL. T). 

Rev. William Jenks, D. D. 

Samuel Jennison, Esq. 

*John Coffin Jones, 

*PIon. William Jones, 

Hon. James Kent, LL. D. 

*Hon. Rufus King, LL. D. 

Rev. John T. Kirkland, D. D., LL. D. 

*Rev. John Lathrop, D. D. 

*John Lathrop, Jr., Esq. 

*Col. Tobias Lear, 

*Hon. Enoch Lincoln, 

*Hon. Levi Lincoln, 

Hon. Levi Lincoln, LL. D. 

William Lincoln, Esq. 

*Hon. Brockholst Livingston, LL. D, 

*Hon. James Lloyd, LL. D. 

Nathaniel Lord, Esq. 

Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D. 

*Hon. Daniel Lyman, 

*Jonathan H. Lyman, Esq, 

*Rev. Joseph Lyman, D. D. 

*Nathaniel Maccarty, Esq. 

William Maclure, Esq. 

*Capt. Hugh M'Call, 

James H. M'Culloch, Jr., M. D. 

*Prof. Joseph M'Kean, LL. D. 

John A. M'Kinney, 

Alexander K. Marshall, 

*Hon, John Marshall, LL. D. 

Hon. Jeremiah Mason, LL. D. 

*Rev. John M. Mason, D. D. 

James Mease, M. D. 



Baltimore. 

New Haven, Conn. 

Baltimore. 

New YorTc. 

'Worcester. 

Bedford, N. Y. 

New York. 

Monticello, Va. 

Boston. 

Worcester. 

Boston. 

Providence. 

New York. 

Boston. 



Washingto7i. 
Portland, Me< 
Worcester, 



New York. 

Boston. 

Ipswich. 

Boston. 

Providence. 

Northampton^ 

Hatfield. 

Worcester. 

Philadelphia. 

Savannah. 

Baltimore. 

Cambridge. 

Rogersville, Tenn^ 

Washington, Ky. 

Richmond. 

Boston. 

New York. 

Philadelphia. 



NAMES OP MEMBERS. 



11 



Pliny Merrick, Esq. 

Hon. James C Merrill, 

Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. 

*Hon. Elijah H. Mills, 

*Hon. Samuel L. Mitchell, M. D., LL. D. 

*Hon. James Munroe, LL. D. 

Hon. Jesse Moore, 

*Hon. Gouverneur Morris, LL. D. 

*Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D. D. 

Rev. Henry A. Muhlenburgh, D. D. 

*Rev. William Nash, 

Hon. Rejoice Newton, 

Amasa Paine, Esq. 

Hon. Elijah Paine, LL. D. 

Frederick W. Paine, Esq. 

Hon. Nathaniel Paine, 

*William Paine, M. D. 

*Rev. Elijah Parish, D. D. 

John Park, M. D. 

*Hon. Isaac Parker, LL. D. 

Rev. Francis Parkman, D. D. 

*HoH. Theophilus Parsons, LL. D, 

*Hon. John Phillips, 

*Hon. William Phillips, 

Hon. John Pickering, LL. D. 

Rev. John Pierce, D. D. 

*Hon. Charles C. Pinckney, LL. D. 

Gen. Thomas Pinckney, 

Hon. Timothy Pitkin, LL. D. 

Hon. William Plumer, 

Jacob Porter, M. D. 

*Rev. John Prince, LL. D. 

William H. Prescott, Esq. 

Hon. Josiah (iuincy, LL. D. 

Dudley H. Rhodes, Esq. 

*Rev. John H. Rice, D. D. 

Obadiah Rich, Esq. 

*Hon. Edward H. Robbins, 

*Rev. Samuel P. Robbins, 

Rev. Thomas Robbins, D. D. 



Worcester. 
Boston. 

Princeton, N. J. 
Northampton. 
Nc7v York. 
Oak Hill, Va. 
31cadvillc, Pa. 
Morrisania, N. Y. 
Charlestown. 
Philadelphia. 
West Boylston. 
Worcester. 
Troy, N. Y. 
Williamstoicn, Vt. 
Worcester. 



Byjield. 
Worcester. 
Boston. 



Brookline. 
Charleston^ S. C 

(S 

Pai'mington, Conn. 
Epping, N. H. 
Plainfield. 
Salem. 
Boston. 
Cambridge. 
Zanesville, Ohio. 
Prince Ed. Co., Va. 
Port Mahon, Minorca. 
Milton. 

Marietta, Ohio. 
Mattapoiset. 



12 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Hon. Benjamin Russell, 

*Hon. Winthrop Sargent, 

*Samuel Savage, M. D. 

Henry R. Schoolcraft, Esq. 

*Hon. Samuel Sewall, LL. D. 

Lemuel Shattuck, Esq. 

*Charles Shaw, Esq. 

*William S. Shaw, Esq. 

*Hon. James Sheafe, 

Rev. David A. Sherman, 

Prof. Benjamin Silliman, LL. D. 

Hon. David Smith, 

Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL. D. 

Nathaniel G. Snelling, Esq. 

Prof. Jared Sparks, LL. D. 

*Nathaniel Spooner, Esq. 

*Hon. William Stedman, 

Hon. Joseph Story, LL. D. 

*Hon. Caleb Strong, LL. D. 

Hon. Bezaleel Taft, Jr. 

*Hon. George Thacher, 

*Caleb Thaxter, Esq. 

*Isaiah Thomas, LL. D. 

*Isaiah Thomas, Esq. 

Isaiah Thomas, Esq. 

*Hon. Joshua Thomas, 

Abraham R. Thompson, M. D. 

Hon. John Thompson, 

*Hon. Charles Thomson, 

*Nicholas Tillinghast, Esq. 

*Hon. Daniel D. Tompkins, LL. D, 

*Rev. Benjamin Trumbull, 
Ichabod Tucker, Esq. 
*Hon. William Tudor, 
*Dudley A. Tyng, LL. D. 
*Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, 
*Thomas Walcut, Esq. 
Hon. Daniel Waldo, 
Thomas W. Ward, Esq. 



Boston. 
Natchez, Miss. 
Barnstable. 
Detroit, Mich. 
Marblehead. 
Boston. 



Portsmouth, N. H. 

Knoxville, Tenn. 

New Haven. 

Columbus, Ohio. 

Exeter, N. H. 

Boston. 

Cambridge. 

Plymouth. 

Ncwburyport. 

Cambridge. 

Northampton. 

Uxbridge. 

Biddeford, Me, 

Hingham. 

Worcester. 

Boston. 

Cincinnati. 

Plymouth. 

Charlestoicn. 

Chillicothe, Ohio. 

LoiDcr Merion, Pa, 

Taunton. 

Tompkinsville, Stat- 

en Island, N. Y. 
North Haven, Conn. 
Salem. 
Boston. 
Newburyport. 
Albany. 
Boston. 
Worcester. 
Boston. 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



13 



Emory Washburn, Esq. 

*Hon. Bushrod Washington, LL. D. 

Hon. Daniel Webster, LL. D. 

*Redford Webster, M. D. 

Hon. Henry Wheaton, LL. D. 

Theophilus Wheeler, Esq. 

*KiIborn Whitman, Esq. 

Joseph Willard, Esq. 

Rev. Samuel Willard, D. D. 

*Hon. Hugh Williamson, M. D., LL. D. 

Rev. Robert G. Wilson, D. D. 

*Isaac Winslow, M. D. 

*Hon. James Winthrop, LL. D. 

Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, LL. D. 

*Hon. William Winthrop, 

Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, 



Worcester. 

Mount Vernon, Va. 

Boston. 

Nao Yorli. 

Worcester. 

Pembroke. 

Boston. 

Hingham. 

Neti) York. 

Chillicothc, Ohio. 

Plymouth. 

Camhriclgc. 

Boston. 

Cambridge. 

Boston. 



FOREIGN MEMBERS. 



DENMARK. 

Finn Magnuson, 

Prof. Charles Christian Rafn, 

*Prof. William Schlegel, 



Copenhagen. 



FRANCE. 



*Marquis de la Fayette, 
*Viscount de Chateaubriand, 
Baron L'Escalies, 
Baron Alexander Humboldt, 
Duke de Montmorency, 
Mons. Cesar Moreau, 
Baron Antoine J. S. de Sacy, 
M. Raoul Rochette, 



La Grange. 
Paris. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 

Robert Anderson, M. D. 

Sir David Brewster, LL. D., F, R. S. 

Sir William Bethune, 



Scotland. 



14 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



*Prof. Thomas Brown, M. D. Scotland. 

Alexander Brunton, D. D. " 

The Earl of Buchan, " 

*Rev. Adam Clarke, D. D., LL. D., F. R. S. England. 
*John Cranch, Esq. " 

Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, *' 

John Bickerton Williams, LL. D. 
John Jamieson, D. D. 
Thomas Parke, Esq. 
*Sir Thomas S. Raffles, 
Robert Southey, LL. D. 
*The Earl of Stanhope, 



Jasper Livingston, Esq. 
Roderick McKenzie, Esq, 



Scotland. 
England. 



Jamaica, W. I. 
Montreal, L. C. 



GERMANY. 



*Prof. Christopher D. Ebeling, 
*Prof John Severin Vater, 



Hamburg. 
Halle. 



ITALY. 

Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta, M. D. 



Turin. 



^Henry Gahn, Esq. 



Col. Juan Galindo. 



SWEDEN. 



CENTRAL AMERICA. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



*Gen. Simon Bolivar. 
*Gregorio Funes, D. D. 
Don Manuel Moreno. 
Don Manuel L. Vidaurre. 



M. George Argyropoulos, 
George Finlay, Esq. 
Prof Lewis Ross, 



GREECE. 



Athens. 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 15 

Rev. John J. Robertson, Syria. 

M. Alexander Rizo Rangabi^ Athens. 

M. Constantine D. Schinas, " 

PRUSSIA. 

Prof. Edward Gerhard, Berlin. 

SWITZERLAND. 

Prof. C. A. Brandis, Bonne. 



OFFICERS 

OF THE 

AMERICAN ANTiaUARIAN SOCIETY, 

ELECTED OCTOBER 23, 1838. 



PKESIEENT. 

Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, LL. D. 

VICE PRESIDENTS. 

Hon. John Davis, LL. D. 
Hon. Joseph Story, LL. D. 

COUNSELLORS. 

Hon. Benjamin Russell, John Park, M. D. 

Hon. Levi Lincoln, LL. D. Frederic W. Paine, Esq. 

Hon. James C. Merrill, John Green, M. D. 

Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D. Joseph Willard, Esq. 

Samuel M. Burnside, Esq. Emory Washburn, Esq. 

secretaries. 
His Excellency Edward Everett, LL. D., Foreign 

Correspondence. 
William Lincoln, Esq., Domestic Correspondence, 
Hon. Rejoice Newton, Recording Secretary. 

treasurer. 
Samuel Jennison, Esq. 

committee of publication. 
John Park, M. D. 
William Lincoln, Esq. 
Alfred D. Foster, Esq. 

librarian. 
Samuel F. Haven, Esq. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 

OCTOBER 23, 1839. 



At the annual meeting of the American Antiq,uaiiian 
Society, held on the twenty-third day of October, 1839, at 
Antiquarian Hall in Worcester, the Reports of the Council, 
Treasurer, and Librarian, were submitted. 

State of the Treasury. 
The funds and property in the Treasurer's hands amounted 
to ^24,919 15 on the 17th of October, 1839, invested as fol- 
lows : — ■ 

1. Balance of the Library Fund, $13,196 21 

2. Balance of the Fund of Antiquities and Researches, 7,395 29 

3. Balance of the General Fund, 2,727 65 

4. Estate in Middlebury, and Dixmont Mortgages, . . 1,600 00 

S24,919 15 

The excess of the expenditures over the income of the Soci- 
ety occasioned by the appropriation of some part of the origi- 
nal funds for buildings and publications, was in May last 
,1536 30 : it has been reduced to ,^342 69, and will soon be 
extinguished by the process of repayment now in operation. 

State of the Library. 
The Library has been kept in good order. During the year 
since the last annual meeting there have been added 948 
tracts, 103 volumes, and more than 200 folios of newspapers 
have been neatly bound. Some portraits have been added to 
the collection of paintings, and coins and curiosities deposited 
in the cabinet. 



» ANNUAL REPORT. 

ABSTRACT OF THE LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. 

The additions to the Society's Library, since the statement 
rendered in May last, consist of five hundred and forty-three 
pamphlets, and forty-four volumes of books. A brazen sacra- 
mental vessel, of unknown antiquity, and an ancient silver 
coin have been placed in the Cabinet ; and a portrait of the 
late Judge Chandler, of Worcester, has been added to the col- 
lection of paintings. 

The pamphlets are of course somewhat miscellaneous ; most 
of them, however, have an intrinsic value, and it is a part of 
our system to consider nothing of the kind unimportant. Al- 
most every household has some place of deposit, in which 
these matters accumulate, and among them the antiquarian, 
taught by experience, feels justified in the expectation of meet- 
ing interesting and valuable relics. Samuel M. Burnside, Esq. 
has transferred one of such collections to the rooms of the 
Society. 

Among the books may be particularised an elegant copy of 
Delafield's Inquiry into the Origin of the Antiquities of Amer- 
ica, from Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, President of the Soci- 
ety — two copies of an historical work upon the Currency of 
Massachusetts, by Rev. J. B. Felt, one from the same source, 
the other presented by the author — Prescott's History of the 
reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, deposited by that gentleman 
himself — a parchment bound folio, containing the entire works 
of Hippocrates, from F. R. Hassler, Esq. and eleven volumes 
of ancient works, scientific, philosophical, and theological, as 
remote in date as venerable in appearance, presented by Sam- 
uel Wells, Esq. of Northampton. 

A set of Bouchette's elegant and expensive Topographical 
Maps of the Province of Lower Canada, has been bestowed 
by Hon. Daniel Waldo of Worcester. 

Doctor Usher Parsons of Providence has deposited a num- 
ber of his own works upon medical subjects, and a little vol- 
ume upon the battle of Lake Erie, by Hon. Tristam Burgess. 

Several communications have been received from foreign 
countries. George Finlay, Esq. a member of this Society, 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



resident in Greece, has transmitted a publication of his own 
on the Topography of Oropia and Diacria; and Governor 
Gahndo has sent from Central America, a written Memoir on 
the ruins of Montagna. From the Secretary of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences of Lisbon have been received two large 
volumes of the Memoirs of that Institution, together with a 
literary Discourse of which he is himself the author. 

The collection of unbound pamphlets has been looked over, 
and those ascertained not to be duplicates assorted for binding. 
As some convenient sets of Reports, Catalogues, Occasional 
Addresses, Sermons, &c. may be made up from the duplicates, 
the expediency of binding these together is suggested. 

A few additional files of Newspapers have been arranged. 
The large number lately put into binding now await the pro- 
vision of a suitable place for their accommodation. 

The work of making an intelligible and systematic reference 
upon tiie Catalogue to the location of books and pamphlets on 
their shelves, is in a state of progress. 
All which is respectfully submitted, 

SAMUEL F. HAVEN, Librarian. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF MEMBERS. 

United States. 
lion. Jolin Quincy Adams, Qnina/. 

lion. John Davis, Boston. 

Foreign 3Ictuhcr. 
31. Frederic de Waldeck. South America. 



OFFICERS 

OF THE 

AMERICAN ANTiaUARIAN SOCIETY, 

ELECTED OCTOBER 23, 1839. 



PRESIDENT. 

Hon. Thomas L. Winthuop, LL. D. 

VICE PRESIDENTS. 

Hon. John Davis, LL. D. 
Hon. Joseph Story, LL. D. 

COUNSELLORS. 

Hon. Benjamin Russell, John Park, M. D. 

Hon. Levi Lincoln, LL. D. Frederic W. Paine, Esq. 

Hon. James C. Merrill, John Green, M. D. 

Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D. Joseph Willard. Esq. 

Samuel M. Burnside, Esq. Emory Washburn, Esq. 

secretaries. 
His Excellency Edward Everett, LL. D., Foreign 

Correspondence. 
William Lincoln, Esq., Domestic Correspondence. 
Hon. Rejoice Newton, Recording Secretary. 

treasurer. 
Samuel Jennison, Esq. 

committee of publication. 
John Park, M. D. 
William Lincoln, Esq. 
Alfred D. Foster, Esq. 

librarian. 
Samuel F. Haven, Esq. 



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